Framing the Issues
The objectives for this module are to:
- Become familiar
with the course structure, purpose, tools, and resources
- Participate in building an on-line community.
- Begin an inquiry e-folio that will be used to document the process and context of your learning throughout the course.
- Examine personal assumptions that underlie the use of digital technology for teaching and learning math and science.
- Locate and frame issues related to the use of digital technology for teaching and learning math and science. Drawing upon analyses of personal experience, personal questions regarding digital technology in science and math education, interviews in authentic school contexts, and video cases of technology use.
- Examine scholarly evidence and opinion to challenge, situate, extend and/or support framed issues, and employ these resources to develop ideas on a major issue related to using technology for teaching and learning math or science.